In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the Host of the pilgrimage at the Tabard is named:

In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim is described as playing the bagpipes to lead the group out of town?

In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the line “If gold rust, what shall iron do?” is associated with which figure?

In Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess (as referenced in the syllabus), the dreamer encounters a Black Knight who chiefly laments the loss of:

In Spenser’s Epithalamion, the poem celebrates the poet’s marriage to:

In Spenser’s Prothalamion, the recurring refrain that structures the river-side procession is:

In Spenser’s Prothalamion, the emblematic birds escorting the brides are:

In Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Remembrance (as printed in Tottel’s Miscellany), the poet belongs to the generation that introduced into English which continental form?

In Bacon’s essay Of Studies, which pairing completes the triad correctly? “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and __ an exact man.”

In Bacon’s essay Of Truth, the allure of falsehood is compared to which element in a mixture that enhances pleasure?

In Bacon’s essay Of Revenge, he states that a man who studies revenge keeps his own wounds:

In Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the demon who laments the pains of being deprived of the sight of God is:

In Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the two figures who frame the action as a chorus are the Ghost of Andrea and:

In Milton’s Paradise Lost Book IX, the immediate cosmic response to the transgression is captured by the phrase that the Earth:

In Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674 edition), the total number of books is:

In Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, the phrase “My vegetable love should grow” most closely signals:

In Donne’s The Canonization, lovers who “die by love” are promised to be enshrined as:

In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock (the five-canto version), the airy beings attending Belinda are called:

In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, the character with “fifty good words” who blusters ineffectually is:

In Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel (Part I, 1681), Zimri allegorically satirizes:

In Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, Absalom represents:

In Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the stanza form is best described as:

In Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the line “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day” exemplifies:

In Johnson’s Life of Milton, which poem is criticized for its mixture of pastoral with learned allusions, prompting the claim of “no real passion”?

In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the land where horses are rational masters is:

In Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress Part I, the fair that tempts Christian and Faithful is named:

In Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the castaway rescues Friday and names him for:

In Dryden’s All for Love, Antony’s loyal Roman general and plain-speaking friend is:

In Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, the pivotal “screen scene” exposes the hypocrisy of:

In Congreve’s The Way of the World, the “Proviso Scene” negotiates terms chiefly between:

In Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, Marlow’s embarrassment before women of rank is contrasted with his ease before:

In Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality, the doctrine underlying “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting” resonates most with:

In Wordsworth’s Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798), the poet credits what faculty with restoring harmony to the “fever of the world”?

In Wordsworth’s The Prelude Book I, the boy’s boat-stealing episode culminates in a vision of a “huge peak” that:

In Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode (1802), the core philosophical claim is that joy:

In Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, the phrase “A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice” chiefly exemplifies:

In Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, the route to the nightingale’s world is through:

In Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, the final word that knells the return to ordinary consciousness is:

In Shelley’s Ozymandias, the inscription sits upon a:

In Shelley’s Adonais, the stanza form is:

In Lamb’s Essays of Elia, “The South-Sea House” nostalgically surveys which kind of institution?

In Lamb’s “Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago”, the school chiefly evoked is associated with which city?

In Hazlitt’s “My First Acquaintance with Poets”, the author first hears Coleridge speak in a sermon at:

In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), the early working title of the draft was:

In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the primary frame narrator who opens and closes the novel is:

In Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach, the “Sea of Faith” is said to have once:

In Arnold’s The Scholar-Gipsy (1853), the scholar is said to have forsaken Oxford to pursue:

In Browning’s Andrea del Sarto, the speaker contrasts his flawless technique with:

In Tennyson’s Ulysses, the closing line resolves in the infinitive sequence:

In Yeats’s Byzantium, the emblem of perfected artifice that transcends decay is a:

In Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the epigraph invokes the Sibyl at Cumae and is in:

In Eliot’s The Waste Land, “April is the cruellest month” subverts which traditional association?

In Hopkins’s God’s Grandeur, the simile “It will flame out, like shining from shook foil” points to:

In Hopkins’s prosody for God’s Grandeur, the principle used is:

In Auden’s The Unknown Citizen, the state file code attached to the subject is:

In Ted Hughes’s The Thought-Fox, the creative arrival is signaled by the fox’s:

In Carlyle’s On Heroes… Lecture III (Shakespeare), Shakespeare is classed as the Hero as:

In Arnold’s essay The Study of Poetry, the proposed touchstone method involves:

In Orwell’s “You and the Atom Bomb” (1945), the essay forecasts a political trend toward:

In Dickens’s Hard Times, the model educator of “facts” is:

In George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Maggie’s brother is named:

In Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, Michael Henchard sells:

In Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, the shell-shocked figure whose tragedy parallels Clarissa’s party is:

In Othello, the lost handkerchief bears strawberries embroidered on:

In King Lear, the disguised Edgar assumes the persona of:

In The Tempest, Prospero’s spirit who “flamed amazement” is:

In Measure for Measure, the deputy whose strictness precipitates the crisis is:

In Sonnet 18, the climactic assurance “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” claims immortality through:

In Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes”), the mood turns when the speaker thinks on:

In Sonnet 65 (“O fearful meditation”), the thing that can “hold a plea” against time’s decay is:

In Sonnet 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments” defines love by its resistance to:

In Sonnet 129, lust is described as:

In Sonnet 130, the poet’s mistress’s eyes are:

In Whitman’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the boy-poet learns song from a:

In Whitman’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the phrase “death’s outlet song of life” chiefly enacts which paradox?

In Anne Bradstreet’s The Prologue, the speaker wryly anticipates male critics who will say her work came from:

In Emerson’s poem Brahma (1857), the philosophical stance aligns primarily with:

In Frost’s Mending Wall, the neighbor’s refrain is:

In Frost’s Birches, the boy who swings birches aims to:

In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s lyric “The Sparrow” (as set in your syllabus list), the poet’s broader reputation rests especially on his mastery of:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, though placed under “Poetry” in the list, is in fact a:

In E. E. Cummings’s “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls,” the rattling object compared to the moon is:

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Anti-Suffragists,” the stance attacked is:

In Thoreau’s “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (Walden), the site of his cabin is:

In Emerson’s “The American Scholar” (1837), the three chief influences on the Scholar are:

In Tagore’s Gitanjali (English, 1912), the translation style is best characterized as:

In Nissim Ezekiel’s “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.”, the poem’s comedy chiefly arises from:

In Toru Dutt’s “Our Casuarina Tree”, the tree chiefly functions as a symbol of:

In Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”, the poet insists on writing in:

In Sujata Bhatt’s “A Different History”, the presiding goddess of learning invoked is:

In Nehru’s An Autobiography (1936), the work’s alternative title is:

In Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste (1936), the address originally invited by a reformist group he refused to moderate is the:

In Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie (1936), the protagonist Munoo dies in:

In Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997), the twins are:

In Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation”, the landlady demanding to know the speaker’s complexion is:

In Aristotle’s Poetics, the purgation of pity and fear is termed:

In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy, the spokesman who most closely voices Dryden’s views is:

In Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Ch. XIV, the “willing suspension of disbelief” is advanced chiefly to defend:

In Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets,” the central deficiency of later poets is called:

In I. A. Richards’s “Four Kinds of Meaning,” which is not one of the four?

In William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity, ambiguity arises when a passage:

In Northrop Frye’s “The Archetypes of Literature,” the mythos of summer is associated with:

In the Indo-European family placement, English belongs to the:

In English phonetics, /ʃ/ as in ship is a:

In Transformational-Generative grammar, “deep structure” chiefly encodes:

In language testing, a proficiency test that samples general ability rather than course content is termed:

Choose the correct British → American pairing:

Identify the figure of speech: “The thirsty earth drank the rain.”

Select the correct prefix creating antonymy: legal → __ + legal